different between ant vs hant

English

Alternative forms

• ante, ampte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ?mette (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *?maitij? (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *?- (“off, away”) + *maitan? (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt, IPA^(key): /ænt/
• (General New Zealand) enPR: ?nt, IPA^(key): /?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: änt, IPA^(key): /??nt/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [??nt], [e?nt]
• Rhymes: -ænt
• Homophone: aunt (in some accents)

Noun

ant (plural ants)

1. Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
2. (Internet) A Web spider.

Synonyms

• (insect): emmet (archaic), pismire (archaic)

Hyponyms

• (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ant- (prefix)
• -ant (suffix)
• Appendix: Animals
• army
• bike
• colony
• nest
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)

1. (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.

References

Anagrams

• NAT, NTA, Nat, Nat., TAN, TNA, Tan, nat, tan

Breton

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ant m

1. furrow

Catalan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?an/

Noun

ant m (plural ants)

1. elk, moose

Crimean Tatar

Noun

ant

1. oath

Declension

Synonyms

• yemin

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[3], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Egyptian

Romanization

ant

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of ?nt.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French entre (“between”).

Preposition

ant

1. between

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nt]

Preposition

añt (with genitive)

1. on

Meroitic

Romanization

ant

1. Romanization of ?????????????

Middle Welsh

Alternative forms

• aant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?nt/

Verb

ant

1. third-person plural present indicative of mynet

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt
• Hyphenation: ant

Verb

ant

1. past participle of ane
2. past participle common of ane
3. past participle neuter of ane

Anagrams

• nat, tan

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *?nt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????? (nt), Azerbaijani and, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ant/
• Hyphenation: ant

Noun

ant (definite accusative and?, plural antlar)

1. oath

Synonyms

• kasem
• yemin

Turkmen

Noun

ant (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. oath

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

?nt f (plural anta)

1. duck

English

Etymology 1

See haunt.

Noun

hant (plural hants)

1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A ghost; a supernatural being.
   • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 20,^[1]

     “ […] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”

     The gentleman did not understand.

     “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.

   • 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, p. 52,^[2]

     […] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.

   • 1967, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, “Spirits and Hants,” p. 213,^[3]

     The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 140,^[4]

     Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

Etymology 2

Contraction

hant

1. Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

Anagrams

• -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

Noun

hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)

1. (Sette Comuni) hand

Declension

Derived terms

• drukhan de hénte
• hàntafa ?

References

• “hant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?nt]

Noun

hant (plural hantok)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. grave (place of burial)

Declension

Derived terms

• hantol

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hant

Noun

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: hand
• Limburgish: handj
• Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Inflection

Alternative forms

• ande (in compounds)

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hant
  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj
  • Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse h?nd, Gothic ???????????????????????? (handus).

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hant
  • Bavarian: Hond

    Cimbrian: hant

    Mòcheno: hònt

  • German: Hand
  • Hunsrik: Hand
  • Luxembourgish: Hand
  • Vilamovian: haond
  • Yiddish: ?????? (hant)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014